Dual-Band Metal-Insulator-Metasurface Absorber

TL;DR

This paper presents a dual-band metal-insulator-metasurface that achieves near-perfect absorption in visible and infrared regions, enhances fluorescence emission, and offers potential for radiative engineering applications.

Contribution

It introduces a novel metasurface design that exploits surface plasmon modes for dual-band absorption and fluorescence enhancement, advancing metasurface-based optical control.

Findings

Achieves near-perfect dual-band absorption in visible and infrared.

Enhances fluorescence emission via degenerate surface plasmon excitation.

Demonstrates potential for radiative engineering applications.

Abstract

We explored a metal-insulator-metasurface structure exhibiting dual-band absorption in the visible and infrared regions with almost perfect absorbance. We demonstrated that the existence of the dual peak absorbance is due to the excitation of propagating surface plasmon and localized surface plasmon mode. We further utilized the excited degenerate propagating surface plasmon to enhance the fluorescence emission of an emitter located on top of the metasurface. This was accomplished by engineering a metasurface that excites a degenerate mode with resonance absorption bands close to the emission wavelength of fluorescent material. This condition helps to increase the rate of excitation and emission of an emitter by generating additional electron configurations when coupled to such metal-insulator-metasurface structures. This approach offers relevant potential in radiative engineering techniques.